Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:58:28 -0500 From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! Message-ID: <0101251658280C.25766@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101251643310.13837-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101251643310.13837-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>
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You know, everybody says this, that Linux uses the FreeBSD tcp/ip stack and other things, but no one seems to verify it. Has anyone actually looked into the code? It shouldn't be very hard to grep through the code and see. If they don't mention the copyright and they use the code, then that's illegal, and I can't picture them doing that, they're quite serious about their GPL, and it's implications. If they didn't actually use any of the code, but instead rewrote similiar stuff, then they didn't really steal it. At that point that's no different from any other code that gets shared between the projects. Tim On Thursday January 25, 2001 16:45, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > i am on your side just wnated to know how much of FreeBSD > > networking code is in 2.4? > > I'm not sure, but I think the BSD networking stuff has been in linux > since 2.2, I think 2.4 got a lot of FreeBSD's VM stuff. I don't know > how much of either is there, but I remember reading about it, and > I've worked in both kernels before and have seen some pretty > non-superficial similarities in both. > > Ken > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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